# Timeline of Bonn

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

## Prior to 19th century

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* 70 CE - Roman-Batavian conflict.
* 359 CE - Town of the Ubii restored by the emperor Julian.
* 889 CE - Settlement sacked by Norse raiders.
* 1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
* 13th C. - Bonn Minster (church) built.
* 1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.
* 1543 - Printing press in operation.
* 1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne.
* 1627 - Kreuzbergkirche (Bonn) [de] (church) built.
* 1673 - November: Siege of Bonn.
* 1693 - Jesuiten-kirche (church) built.
* 1730 - Palace built.
* 1737 - Town Hall built.
* 1746 - Poppelsdorf Palace built.
* 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn.
* 1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded..
* 1792 - Beethoven leaves Bonn for Vienna where he would stay for the rest of his life.
* 1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.
* 1794 - French took power; sanctioned by the Treaty of Lunéville.
* 1800 - Johann Joseph Eichhoff [de] becomes mayor.

## 19th century

* 1815 - Town becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna.
* 1818 - Rhenish Frederic William University and Academic Art Museum established.
* 1820 - Museum of Antiquities founded.
* 1822 - Town becomes part of the Rhine Province.
* 1841 - Society of the Friends of Antiquity founded.
* 1844 - Railway Station built; Bonn–Cologne Railway begins operating.
* 1845 - Beethovenhalle (concert hall) built.
* 1851 - Leopold Kaufmann becomes mayor.
* 1859 - Durchmusterung astronomical survey begins at the Bonn Observatory.
* 1860 - Dieckhoff residence built.
* 1862 - Herz Jesu-kirche (church) built.
* 1867 - Population: 63,630.
* 1871 - Bonn-Beuel station opens.
* 1882 - Municipal museum active.
* 1884 - Railway Station rebuilt.
* 1885 - Population: 35,989.
* 1888 - the local newspaper General-Anzeiger was first published
* 1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.
* 1890 - Beethovenfest active.
* 1891 - Provincial Museum of Rhenish and Roman Antiquities opens.
* 1892 - Marienkirche (church) built.
* 1898 - Rhine bridge built.

## 20th century
### 1900s-1940s

* 1904 - Photographische Vereinigung Bonn and Amateur-Photographen-Club Bonn active (approximate date).
* 1905 - Population: 81,997.
* 1913 - Stollfuß Verlag (publisher) in business.
* 1919 - Population: 91,410.
* 1922 - Gummy bear candy invented.
* 1934 - Museum Koenig (natural history museum) opens.
* 1939 - Population: 101,391.
* 1944
** 4 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp established.
** 14 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn-Bad Godesberg forced labour camp established.
** 28 November: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp dissolved.
* 1945
** March: American forces take city.
** Allied occupation of Germany begins; North Rhine-Westphalia overseen by British forces.
* 1947 - Kunstmuseum Bonn (art museum) founded.
* 1949
** May: City designated capital of Federal Republic of Germany.
** Bundestag (national legislature) begins meeting in the Bundeshaus.
** Rhine bridge rebuilt.

### 1950s-1990s

* 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.
** Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany.
* 1951
** Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland [de] (foreign press association) formed.
* 1959 - Beethovenhalle rebuilt.
* 1963 - British Embassy Preparatory School founded.
* 1967 - Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (museum) rebuilt.
* 1969
** Bad Godesberg, Beuel, and Duisdorf become part of city.
** Central Theater and Youth Theater founded.
* 1970 - United Nations Volunteers headquartered in Bonn.
* 1975
** Bonn Stadtbahn (public transit) begins operating; Bundesrechnungshof station opens.
** Hans Daniels becomes mayor.
* 1978 - July: 4th G7 summit held.
* 1979 - City hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show).
* 1980 - University of Bonn's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics established.
* 1981 -Bonn Women's Museum founded.Protest in Bonn against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Germany, 1981
* 1982 - 10 June: NATO summit held.
* 1984 - Bonn Botanical Garden reconstructed.
* 1985
** Rheinisches Malermuseum (art museum) established.
** May: 11th G7 summit held.
* 1986 - Heimatmuseum Beuel (museum) established.
* 1989 - International Paralympic Committee headquartered in city.
* 1991 - Capital decision (Hauptstadtbeschluss)
* 1992 - Bundeskunsthalle (exhibit hall) inaugurated.
* 1994
** Bärbel Dieckmann becomes mayor.
** Haus der Geschichte (history museum) opens.
* 1995 - Deutsches Museum Bonn, and University of Bonn's Center of Advanced European Studies and Research and Center for European Integration Studies established.
* 1996 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat headquartered in Bonn.
* 1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law) established.
* 1998 - Institute for the Study of Labor founded.
* 1999
** German Bundestag (legislature) relocated from Bonn to Berlin per Berlin-Bonn Act.
** Federal Court of Auditors and Federal Cartel Office relocated to Bonn.

## 21st century

* 2001 - University of Bonn's Egyptian Museum founded.
* 2002
** Post Tower and Schürmann-Bau (office building) constructed.
** UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training inaugurated.
* 2005 - Events of the World Youth Day 2005 were held in Bonn
* 2006 - Official opening of the Bonn UN Campus by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
* 2009
** Jürgen Nimptsch [de] becomes mayor.
** Student protests.
* 2011 - The celebrations for the Day of German Unity take place in Bonn
* 2012 - attempted bomb attack on Bonn Central Station [de]
* 2015
** After 9 years of construction, the World Conference Center Bonn [de] was opened
** Ashok-Alexander Sridharan becomes mayor
* 2017
** Meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 20
** 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) under the Presidency of the Republic of Fiji in Bonn
* 2019 - University of Bonn becomes excellence university
* 2020 - Katja Dörner is elected new mayor
* 2023 - Telekom Baskets Bonn win the Basketball Champions League as first German team and first title in the club´s history.